SAI to employ Olympians, Paralympians as coaches at its centres
Other Sports | January 14, 2021 14:35 ISTThe employment process, already underway, creates vacancies for 23 assistant coaches and four coaches.
The employment process, already underway, creates vacancies for 23 assistant coaches and four coaches.
The camp will take place from December 28 to January 24 at the Vasas Sports Club in Budapest, Hungary and from January 24 to February 5 at the Olympic Training Centre in Szczryk in Poland.
The triple jumper says dropping him without any events to show his performance during lockdown was demoralising.
The decision to include them in the scheme was taken at the 50th Mission Olympic Cell meeting held on November 26.
The archer is asymptomatic and being monitored by a medical team, said Sports Authority of India.
Triple Jumper Arpinder Singh was excluded from the TOPS scheme while 400m runners MR Poovamma, Nirmal Noah Tom, Alex Anthony included in the scheme along with javelin thrower Annu Rani.
The players will reassemble for camp again on January 5 after a three-week break.
The Sports Authority of India (SAI) on Friday said that the Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested three persons, including a former kabaddi player, for fleecing athletes through a false advertisement for Khelo India Games.
SAI said the advertisement used "logos of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Sports Authority of India and Khelo India, which misled several athletes to believe it to be a government advertisement."
The Sports Authority of India (SAI) Regional Centre in Zirakpur will serve as one of the main centres in the northern belt.
The two-month training camp began from October 15 and is scheduled to run until December 14.
With the focus firmly on qualifying for 2021 Tokyo Olympics, the Indian table tennis players on Wednesday resumed their training after almost seven months at the national camp in Sonepat.
The team is currently taking part in the national coaching camp at the Sports Authority of India (SAI) facility in Bengaluru amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Ankit was admitted to the Bhagwan Dass Hospital on October 14 after testing positive for the dreaded virus during a national camp at the SAI Northern Regional Centre.
This is the second time in two months that the camp has been postponed, the first being in August, when NRAI was forced to call it off in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Union Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju unveiled the new logo of Sports Authority of India on September 30. Explaining the idea behind the new logo
Sports Authority of India (SAI) logo has been changed for the first time since the apex sports body's inception in 1982.
The Sports Authority of India (SAI), in the first phase in early June, had allowed training for only Olympic-bound athletes at its various centres.
SAI will also bear the cost for Srikanth's COVID-19 testing that is required to be done before he takes part in the competition.
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